I’ve been wanting to say something about this entire topic since that article appeared in City Journal written by that clueless harridan. First some disclaimers, 30 years old, single, never married, military veteran, college grad, current graduate student.
A while back, some friends over drinks asked out of the blue to name “the first three things that come to mind when I say ‘American women’ ” – without thinking twice I blurted out “shallow, materialistic, and whiny.” Dead silence. I thought for a second to see if I wanted to change my mind, part of me wanted to panic and instantly apologize, for fear of the good old “SEXIST, RACIST< BLAAAARRRGGHHHHH” that seems to come out anytime you even _criticize_ women these days, but nope, I stand by it.
In fact, I’d like to add to it a little bit:
1) It seems like American women have developed an ability to completely deny or accept personal responsibility, for ANYTHING in their lives, at all. It’s either (whine) the system is nooooottt faaaaiiiiir, or “it’s my ex’s fault” or anybody else’s fault but their own. Sorry, not an endearing quality ladies, and not the mark of equality
2) A sense of entitlement, esp entitlement to bad behavior (which should just be accepted, because, you know, they’re women and _empowered_ after all). I don’t think that anyone, regardless of gender, race or whatever, is entitled to jack or shit
Also, if diversity, sensitivity, and sexual assault awareness training have actually accomplished anything, it’s made men and women distrustful of each other, to a horrible degree, and with the legal deck stacked in a woman’s favor (so, has anyone ever seen a woman punished substantially for false rape accusations, for false sexual harassment allegations, or actually held to work standards, ever?)
Here’s what really happens at a military unit when we get our annual “sexual assault awareness briefing”
1) the guys sit there and stew, because we have to listen to some politicized civilian, who is completely outside the chain of command, lecture us about how bad we are
2) if we ever speak up, we get slapped down by complicit senior (usually male) NCOs and officers who remind us that “sir, we’re not here to argue the policy, but enforce it”
3) after we’re done, all of us disgruntled males discuss what a load of bullshit we’ve been forced to swallow again while several of the females scamper off, with and even bigger sense of false pride than they had before, singing “I’m every woman” and “You go girl” (yes there is some sarcasm here)
My favorite SARC comment was “you guys might as well bring written contracts to the bar with you if you even plan on getting with someone again”
The irony is, that long after the current cultural fads have been discredited, or even if the law corrects the current imbalance, it will persist in the services because we are so go at enforcing what we’re told, after we’ve exhausted our objections and advice to the commander and he says “press”
I think the entire bottom line is this: us guys, our bullshit meter has been pegged, and since we don’t have the legal recourse to correct things, and since women seem much more interested in “privelege” than actual “equality” (I don’t see any one out there DEMANDING to sign up for Selective Service), since they seem to chastise us for criticizing their gender, but then have no problems falling back on it or using sex as a weapon (that’s called empowerment supposedly) – why should we bother? You can call us “CGLITS” (Can’t Get Laid in the States) all you want, but for guys, the less bullshit we have to put up with, the happier we are.
Women ought to take a hard look in the mirror, because the feminists did you a disservice: they won you freedom, BUT, they sure as hell failed in telling you what the heck you were supposed to DO WITH IT.
